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Friday, December 2, 2011

Pastie on Xubuntu 11.10

Pastie is a simple clipboard manager that saves history of previous copied text.
It's convenient to use a clipboard manager not only for the history list, but also because the copied text will be unavailable if the application that has the original text is closed.

Note:
Pastie depends on python-gnome2 package, however this dependency it's not automatically resolved; python-gnome2 has to be installed manually.
Here's what happens if python-gnome2 is not installed:
$ pastie
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/pastie", line 30, in <module>
import pastielib.protector as protector
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pastielib/protector.py", line 31, in <module>
import pastielib.history as history
File "/usr/lib/pymodules/python2.7/pastielib/history.py", line 20, in <module>
import gnomevfs
ImportError: No module named gnomevfs

Pastie's selection dialog
Pastie allows to open the clipboard history using a keyboard shortcut. The default value for that shortcut is Ctrl-Shift-C and it'll cause problems since that's the same key combination for copying text from the terminal.
My suggestion is to change it to Ctrl-Alt-H (the key combination is for accessing clipboard History, so it's easy to remember).